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Cause for alarm : the volunteer fire department in the nineteenth-century city
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ISBN: 069160343X 1400864925 9781400864928 0691016488 1306983746 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians. Redressing this neglect, Amy Greenberg reveals the meaning of this central institution by comparing the fire departments of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided many men with friendship, brotherhood, and a way to prove their civic virtue. While other scholars have claimed that fire companies were primarily working class, Greenberg shows that they were actually mixed social groups: merchants and working men, immigrants and native-born--all found a common identity as firemen. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. In an otherwise alienating environment, fire companies provided men from all walks of life with status, community, and an outlet for competition, which sometimes even led to elaborate brawls.While this culture was fully respected in the early nineteenth century, changing social norms eventually demonized the firemen's vision of masculinity. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against the firemen in each city, and places the municipalization of firefighting in the context of urban social change, new ideals of citizenship, the rapid spread of fire insurance, and new firefighting technologies.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Classifying explosion-prone areas for the petroleum, chemical, and related industries
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ISBN: 1591245710 9781591245711 9780815513667 0815513666 9780815516446 0815516444 1282769235 9781282769236 9786612013539 9786612769238 0080946089 128201353X Year: 1995 Publisher: Park Ridge, N.J., U.S.A. Noyes Publications

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The degree of danger in the atmosphere of a hazardous location needs to be determined prior to selecting an acceptable electrical equipment installation. If maximum safety is the predominant factor in determining the type of electrical installations, the cost of electrical equipment will be extremely high. If low cost of electrical installation is the predominant factor, safety to personnel and equipment may be unacceptably low. It is, therefore, necessary to find a point of balance at which the cost and safety requirements are both satisfied and acceptable. In nine out of ten cases, a


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Essays on the performance of fire and rescue services
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ISBN: 9188514757 Year: 2002 Publisher: Göteborg Göteborg university. School of economics and commercial law

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Fire department deployment analysis: a public policy analysis case study
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ISBN: 0444003355 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York


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A history of firefighting
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ISBN: 0903485613 Year: 1979 Publisher: Ashbourne : Moorland Publishing,


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Le réformisme pervers : le cas des sapeurs-pompiers
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ISBN: 2130523692 9782130523697 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris: PUF,


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Black firefighters and the FDNY
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ISBN: 1469633639 1469633647 9781469633633 9781469633640 9781469633626 1469633620 9781469661469 1469661462 9798890847928 Year: 2017 Publisher: Chapel Hill


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Quantitative Evaluation of Fire and EMS Mobilization Times
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ISBN: 1461444411 9786613936578 146144442X 1283624125 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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Quantitative Evaluation of Fire and EMS Mobilization Times presents comprehensive empirical data on fire emergency and EMS call processing and turnout times, and aims to improve the operational benchmarks of NFPA peer consensus standards through a close examination of real-world data. The book also identifies and analyzes the elements that can influence EMS mobilization response times. Quantitative Evaluation of Fire and EMS Mobilization Times is intended for practitioners as a tool for analyzing fire emergency response times and developing methods for improving them. Researchers working in a related field will also find the book valuable.

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